Consumer Law & Debit Cards: Consumer Reports, November 2006 issue, has an excellent article on Debit Cards. I keep up with a lot of this stuff, but I learned a couple of new things from this article. It’s on page, 57 in the paper edition (which I subscribe to and you can probably also see at your local public library online or in print). You can also read it free (thank you Consumer Reports!) on their web site, here. If this direct link doesn’t work right for you, link to Consumer Reports and follow the Personal Finance links to an alphabetical list of articles, and look for one called “Debit Cards.” The article is called, “Debit Cards, Going Cashless, not Clueless.”